A Rolling Stone writer speculated Sunday that the reason first lady MelaniaTrump has not been seen in public since the middle of May is because she is a victim of spousal abuse.

“I wish that I didn’t suspect that the prolonged, poorly explained public absence of MelaniaTrump could be about concealing abuse,” tweeted Jamil Smith, a senior writer with the Rolling Stone.

“I wish that it was a ludicrous prospect. I wish that the @POTUS wasn’t a man with a history of abusing women, including those to whom he is married.”

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I wish that I didn’t suspect that the prolonged, poorly explained public absence of MelaniaTrump could be about concealing abuse. I wish that it was a ludicrous prospect. I wish that the @POTUS wasn’t a man with a history of abusing women, including those to whom he is married.

The latter allegation of spousal abuse appears to be in relation to President Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump.

The New York Times reported that journalist Harry Hurt III in his 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” described a night in which Trump raped his then wife in a fit of rage.

However, Ivana Trump disputed this account, telling The Times in a statement, “I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited toward me, was absent” during the incident in question.

“During a deposition given by me in connection with my matrimonial case (when the two were getting divorced in the early ’90s), I stated that my husband had raped me,” Ivana Trump told the newspaper. “I referred to this as a ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”

Smith’s tweet on Sunday came following reports that MelaniaTrump did not plan to accompany her husband to the G7 Summit in Quebec this week or to his planned summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un early next week.

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The Hill reported that the first lady does plan to join her husband at an event at the White House honoring Gold Star families.

MelaniaTrump said in a tweet last week the media is wasting time with speculation about her absence from the public spotlight.

“I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I’m doing,” she tweeted. “Rest assured, I’m here at the @White House w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!”

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I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I’m doing. Rest assured, I’m here at the @WhiteHouse w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!

Among the theories Politico chronicled in its story were that the first lady left the White House and has moved back to New York City, she’s cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, or perhaps she underwent plastic surgery.

On May 14, the White House announced MelaniaTrump underwent minor kidney surgery at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Trump was released from the hospital on May 19, but had not been seen at any public events since.

The president visited his wife multiple times during the week she was at Walter Reed.